Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe) | 
But a great deal of us is together, and we can but abide by it, and steer our courses to meet soon. John Thomas says good-night to Lady Jane, a little droopingly, but with a hopeful heart.
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The story concerns a young married woman, the former Constance Reid (Lady Chatterley), whose upper-class baronet husband, Sir Clifford Chatterley, described as a handsome, well-built man, is paralysed from the waist down because of a Great War injury. Constance has an affair with the gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors.
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes.
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so-soI think I have a better appreciation of this, having read it with others for #sundaybuddyread, and I‘m happy to have read it… but too much of it just seemed to be written just to be inflammatory without enough substance in the primary, surface-level plot for me to like it. Plus just far too much talking to appendages rather than to people… 😵💫 thanks for the push to check it off the list, @TheBookHippie 😅
so-soIt's definitely not my favorite classic. I can see why it has been banned so much 🤦🏼♀️But I'm glad I finally read it and am even more glad that it was a #SundayBuddyRead
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August reads. The tagged book is the only one I didn‘t like 🤣 I read one more, but there‘s no cover art yet so I didn‘t include it 🤣
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This is a pick for the awesome book discussion and a pick for the themes in the book, there is lots to discuss and think about. Glad I read it but it‘s only a so so for the story.
so-so#RushAThon #4in20 #readathon
Finished for #SundayBuddyRead & while I‘m glad I finally read it (after picking it up in high school & then putting it back down unread) I didn‘t enjoy it. I found Lawrence‘s writing overwrought & all over the place & while I admire his social commentary & daring to write this book in his era, no character is likable & the sex scenes it was banned for are not sexy. The best part of the book was the weekly discussion.
panThis book is such a muddle. Some passages of truly beautiful prose & lucid insight into the human condition, marred by a terribly ugly & reactionary worldview that made me feel trapped by a heavy sense of desolation as I read it. It's definitely a glimpse into the tortured psyche of D.H. Lawrence. But ultimately what comes through is a general hatred of people, especially "weak" people, & the types of difference that make people human & flawed.
pick3.5 ⭐️
I can see why this book was banned with all of the sex scenes. Even I was surprised of the details it had for that time period. I really liked D.H. Lawrence's comments towards sex, gender equality, social class, and industrialization. What I was not too fond of was of Connie and Clifford. They irritated me.
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so-soHaving made copious notes, where do I start to sum up my thoughts and feelings? I was surprised there was no firm final tragic parting of the lovers, as the text occasionally seemed to be leaning and which I think historical classics are often guilty of.
I feel like as forward thinking as Lawrence may have been in his day, he's so far behind where we are now in relation to sex and gender that I can't sing his praises. 1/?
A distillation of the rest of the novel: some good points buried in a bunch of antiquated attitudes I can't get on board with.
Fighting back against piracy of books such that artist gets his due royalties 👍🏻
Not bowing to censorship because his book says what it need to say in exactly the words used👍🏻 1/?
Yes it's Saturday. Sorry #sundaybuddyread , just need to be done with this one.
Notes for Chapter 15 to End.
Final Review will come after reading 30 page A Propos from author found at the end of my edition (maybe every edition? 🤷🏼♂️)
Notes:
WAY too obsessed with the symbolism and imagery of genetalia around power and liveliness vivacity, an offshoot of toxic masculinity?
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so-soThis made me WAAAAAY too angry to be a pick. But I am glad that #sundaybuddyread gave me an excuse to reread it after all these years because it definitely got me thinking and there actually were some aspects that I appreciated. Looking forward to seeing what everyone thought about the last section tomorrow.
An early proponent of 'unchecked growth is not a sustainable business/economic model'? 👍🏻
pickThis is both incredibly readable and entirely unmemorable.
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panThe only good part of this book is talking about it on Sundays #sundaybuddyread thankful I‘m finished
“Because if once the men walked with legs close bright scarlet, and buttocks nice and showing scarlet under a little white jacket: then the women 'ud begin to be women.”
Um. Wut. 😂
Determined to finish this today for this month‘s #sundaybuddyread I‘m at Panera to start (shocker, I know) and I‘ll move to Starbucks if necessary🤣
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She just left for Italy and it‘s all I can do not to shake the book and scream at her to just disappear down some out of the way canal and never return 😂😅😫😵💫🤐
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so-soMy summary goes like this: Intriguing…. Boring, mild erotica, boring, WTF? boring, class resentment, mild erotica, racism, more mild erotica, misogyny, boring, WTF?, intellectual twaddle, WTF?, some more mild erotica, quick trip to Venice, boring. The end.
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I gave two stars for his mastery of language.
so-soI didn‘t love this but I didn‘t hate it either. Of course, we all know how widely this book has been banned because of all the sex that takes place, but there really is more going on. Societal and gender norms, class prejudices, and the downfalls of industrialization to name a few, and these issues are still happening today. I did enjoy reading with the #SundayBuddyRead crew!
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Found in my #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD book.
pickI can definitely see why this is a classic as well as why it caused such a stir as it could still hold up in both cases in modern times. Some very interesting views on gender norms, societal classes, and sex. Read for #sundaybuddyread
so-soI was surprised at the number of socioeconomic issues raised by this book, including class prejudice, sexism, the evils of industrialization and wealth disparity. I found the book to be a bit boring, and every character annoyed me - they were all so self-centered. But I admire Lawrence's ability to make us think about the issues, which are still relevant a hundred years later. ⬇️
Ch 12- 14 Notes
Amazing how easy it is for a character to decide that sex is absurd or undignified when they're not enjoying themselves. Amazing how easy it is for intimacy to get tangled, maybe it's an ace view, but Connie seems to be having a sadder time because she's convinced intimacy might come from sex, rather than being a reflection of an existing intimacy. 1/?
Such an excellent distillation of earlier concerns raised by Connie and comeback against the BS Clifford was spewing this chapter - if only she hadn't ended it on the next page with some blatant antisemitism. 🤦🏼♂️
